Save TV Shows From Cable Box?

this is kinda random but I have a cable box from Verizon and on the back it has a usb port, I was wondering if I could connect it to my external hard drive and record tv shows. does anyone know if this is possible at all or if I daisy chain my my cable box, hard drive, and macbook, would I be able to control the cable box somehow with the macbook and then record to the hard drive?
even if theres some software I could download that would allow me to use just this equipment whether its for Mac or XP?
this would really great to be able to do

You said cable box, not DVR. So are you trying to record live television or transfer recordings from a DVR. If you want to transfer recordings...good luck, unless you have firewire on your box you will probably have a useless USB port. It might as well say service port. If you do connect to it there's always the slimmest chance it will show up as mass storage.
Now, if you want to timeshift television there are a ton of products to help you do that. Try: http://www.miglia.com/ and http://www.elgato.com/ . If you need to decode the cable (it's digital, but not Clear QAM) then you need to use the RCA or S-video outputs from your box to connect to any adapter/breakout box you choose. Controlling the box would then be done with a time. I don't know what you would do for an IR blaster to control it with your Mac, but there may be an available product and it's theoretically possible that you could do so with the built-in IR port.
Good Luck,
-j

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